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Google's Pac-Man Logo Perplexes Scores of Firefox Users

While a goodly chunk of society was squandering away roughly $120,483,800 in productivity messing about with Google's playable Pac-Man logo the other week, some less technologically inclined Internet denizens were apparently, well, freaking out.

A few weeks ago, Google launched an awesome interactive logo — Pac-Man — in celebration of the arcade game's 30th birthday. Predictably, people were completely and totally stoked. A game! Built into one's browser! For free!

Well, while some were busy figuring out how to download the game so as to keep playing for years to come, a cadre of Firefox users were downright confused. "What are these strange noises emanating from my browser?" they wondered aloud (at least they wondered aloud in my imagination — there's also hair-tearing and teeth-gnashing). Subsequently, said users headed on over to the Firefox support center.

According to Compete's blog — a writer from which was tipped off by Director of Developer Relations at Mozilla Christopher Blizzard's Twitter stream, where he was lamenting about the influx of confused users — the day the logo launched was a peak day for activity on the help center page. The growth for Daily Reach was up 52.56% from the previous day, and the Daily Attention experienced a 47.71% increase. Now we're not sure if this spike in traffic can be attributed solely to the appearance of the Google logo, but the numbers certainly are interesting.

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